## Why While debugging the Windows stack overflows we saw in [#13429](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/13429) and then again in [#18893](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18893), I hit another overflow in `tools::handlers::multi_agents::tests::tool_handlers_cascade_close_and_resume_and_keep_explicitly_closed_subtrees_closed`. That test drives the legacy multi-agent spawn / close / resume path. The behavior was fine, but several thin async wrappers were still inlining much larger `AgentControl` futures into their callers, which was enough to overflow the default Windows stack. ## What - Box the thin `AgentControl` wrappers around `spawn_agent_internal`, `resume_single_agent_from_rollout`, and `shutdown_agent_tree`. - Box the corresponding legacy `multi_agents` handler calls in `spawn`, `resume_agent`, and `close_agent`. - Keep behavior unchanged while reducing future size on this call path so the Windows test no longer overflows its stack. ## Testing - `cargo test -p codex-core --lib tools::handlers::multi_agents::tests::tool_handlers_cascade_close_and_resume_and_keep_explicitly_closed_subtrees_closed -- --exact --nocapture` - `cargo test -p codex-core` (this still hit unrelated local integration-test failures because `codex.exe` / `test_stdio_server.exe` were not present in this shell; the relevant unit tests passed)
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